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Good luck with your combine. Once you pass the combine and get funded as a TST trader, what will beyour trading limit?
$475,000?

I like that you have choosen a custom combine to fit your trading style.

Thanks for the well wishes, MfBreakOut!

Their rules are very simple. Once you successfully challenge their combine, you become a funded trader and trade the EXACT SAME account size and instrument/products that you traded during the combine - as a combine recruit. Nothing changes.

Of course, if you fail the combine....you also loose the deposit. In my case, 800 nachos.

There is a middle step that's added between becoming a combine graduate and a funded trader. It's called, "Live Trader Prep". It's another combine that TsT subjects anyone, who they feel didn't have a high K-ratio, or had very little consistency. You must trade for ten days and the objectives are lax compared to the one you challenged. They wanna make sure that they're funding a consistent trader and not a cracker-jack.

I use TraderVue and it automatically calculates my K-ratio.

Even though, I plan on having a K-ratio over 3.0 (2.0 is their bare minimum), I FULLY intend to volunteer for their Live Trader Prep "in-between stage" prior to trading live. Why? Because I've never in my 42-years (43 years young on 12 September 1971) have ever traded anything on any exchange. I want to be completely acclimated to this environment, before I actually put real nachos in play.

Here is a screenshot of my trading days, since Monday; 8 September 2014.

I felt ill on Sunday and plowed thru to my trading desk on Monday feeling like crap. I totally ignored the signals that my body was firing off and as a result, it was reflected on my PnL. I lost $3,778.00 after commissions. WoWZA! What a way to get the week started. Right?

I took Tuesday completely off. I did turn on my laptop to listen to RollTide's Newest Funded Trader interview, but I could barely keep my eyes opened and my body was shaking in chills. I broke the fever a few hours later.

Today, Wednesday, I felt a lot better and I've gotta tell you. I love that feeling when you can blow your nose and a whole lot of snot comes pouring out of your nostrils. It's soooo liberating. Now, I have post-nasal drip and that's mildly irksome.

I traded today and earned over $4K. As a result, I'm net positive 200 nachos, for the week. Whew! I'm glad that I recovered, quickly, and I'm so happy to be back in square one.

Look at screenshot and see how much time....how long I kept my winning position over my loosing position, today. I'm very proud of that feat, traders! I find that it's easy to get stopped out, but to let your runners run is an act of faith.

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Last edited by MarthaChiriboga; September 11th, 2014 at 07:24 PM.
Reason: Removed My FB Fanpage that contains my Name of my Affiliate link- per Mike's Request

Remove the link to your affiliate in the first post. You were banned for this before. If you do anything remotely similar to this ever again, your ban will be permanent without any exception whatsoever.

Mike

Due to time constraints, please do not PM me if your question can be resolved or answered on the forum.

Need help?1) Stop changing things. No new indicators, charts, or methods. Be consistent with what is in front of you first.2) Start a journaland post to it daily with the trades you made to show your strengths and weaknesses.3) Set goals for yourself to reach daily. Make them about how you trade, not how much money you make.4) Accept responsibility for your actions. Stop looking elsewhere to explain away poor performance.5) Where to start as a trader? Watch this webinar and read this thread for hundreds of questions and answers.6) Help using the forum? Watch this video to learn general tips on using the site.

I was bucking the trend on Crude, from the open, and *almost* blew up my combine account. $14.00 short of hitting my daily loss limit is what saved my phat ass. I miscalculated, originally, and thought I blew it altogether. I am happy to announce that I learned a few things, this week:

Number #1: Don't trade when you're not feeling well. I'm still experiencing upper, respiratory congestion. Woke-up with an unmitigating headache and still traded. WTF? Nobody put a gun to my head and *forced* me to trade.

UPDATE: I went straight to bed, after the day session, and I'm feeling so much better. I'll monitor my fever, overnight. It appears that it's broken, since I'm sweating as if I'm sitting inside an Indian Lodge Teepee.

Number #2: Don't be influenced by others in the Beaver Dam, my virtual trading room. Do your own due diligence, even when your the hostess with the mostess.

FYI: the Beaver Dam is an AdobeConnect room, where I record my stream of consciousness, while I trade. It's open to the public, on the first Tuesday of each month.

Traders, if you expected me to have excuses or use scape goats, think AGAIN. There are no hostages and no victims, in the Trading game. I *almost* lost this combine, because of ME. Me. Me. Meeeeee.

This is the third and last "final, final, FINAL" warning. And you will not be able to come back after you are banned this time, period, for ever. I cannot understand why you would purposely advertise your site moments after I last told you not to do tihs! NO SELF PROMOTION!

And don't try to tell me it's free, that website is an affiliate link and you and I both know it. ENOUGH!

Mike

Due to time constraints, please do not PM me if your question can be resolved or answered on the forum.

Need help?1) Stop changing things. No new indicators, charts, or methods. Be consistent with what is in front of you first.2) Start a journaland post to it daily with the trades you made to show your strengths and weaknesses.3) Set goals for yourself to reach daily. Make them about how you trade, not how much money you make.4) Accept responsibility for your actions. Stop looking elsewhere to explain away poor performance.5) Where to start as a trader? Watch this webinar and read this thread for hundreds of questions and answers.6) Help using the forum? Watch this video to learn general tips on using the site.

This is the third and last "final, final, FINAL" warning. And you will not be able to come back after you are banned this time, period, for ever. I cannot understand why you would purposely advertise your site moments after I last told you not to do tihs! NO SELF PROMOTION!

And don't try to tell me it's free, that website is an affiliate link and you and I both know it. ENOUGH!

Mike

Done!

Mike, sometimes I've been accused of "not being the brightest colored-crayon in the box".

As you've said before you have never traded before. Why do you think you are qualified to trade 35 contracts? To me that is a bit like given a 14 yr old with a learners driving permit the keys to a Ferrari. How could you possibly expect to be able to trade at that size?